Share of the vote received by Conservatives ( blue ), Whigs / Liberals / Liberal Democrats ( orange ), Labour ( red ) and others ( grey ) in general elections since 1832.

Previously this plan had been dismissed by the Queensland branch of the Liberal party, but the idea received in-principle support from the Liberals.

The British Foreign Office had received the forgery on 10 October 1924, two days after the defeat of the MacDonald government on a confidence motion put forward by the Liberals.

In a CBC interview, Sauvé conceded that the NDP members may have been right that the Liberals may have been allowed more questions over two or three days, but, on the whole, each party received an equal number of opportunities.

In terms of first-preference votes, One Nation received more than either the Liberals or Nationals.

After 1886 it was the Conservatives who enjoyed this position and they received a huge boost with their electoral and political alliance with a party of disaffected Liberals.

In the 1998 election, the Quebec Liberals received more votes than the PQ, but because the Liberal vote was concentrated in fewer ridings, the PQ won enough seats to form another majority government.

The Liberals responded to these criticisms by highlighting the financial compensation the province received from the federal government in exchange for control of its natural resources, which amounted to $ 375, 000 per year.

In 1893, Hardie and others formed the Independent Labour Party, an action that worried the Liberals, who were afraid that the ILP might, at some point in the future, win the working-class votes that they traditionally received.

In the 1944 provincial election, Godbout's Liberals and Duplessis ’ Union Nationale received similar shares of the popular vote, the Liberals getting slightly more votes but the UN enjoying a level of support in the province ’ s rural areas that was strong enough to win a majority of seats to the legislature and thus form the government.

Handley ran for the Liberals and placed third, he received 2, 872 votes.

He finally received a promise of a Cabinet position, should he and the Liberals be elected ; Howe would not have stood without such an undertaking.

The NDP began the 1995 election well behind the Tories and Liberals, but received a last-minute surge in popular support and came very close to forming government.

A combination of anti-CCF propaganda, the increasing adoption of somewhat progressive policies by the New Brunswick Liberals and Conservatives, and a general trend of post-war decline for the CCF nationally all contributed to weaken the New Brunswick CCF in the 1948 provincial election, this time under Arrowsmith's leadership, in which they received half the votes they won in 1944 and again won no seats.

The Manitoba Conservatives received their greatest support from the francophone community in the 1915 election, due to the fact that the party was seen as more supportive than the Liberals of francophone education rights.

The Liberals believed they had a chance to win the provincial election of 1886, and in fact received about as many votes as Norquay's Conservatives.

The Conservatives received funding from Europe, especially from Isabella II of Spain and Napoleon III of France ; the Liberals found backing from United States Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, after they had finished their own Civil War in 1865.

The Conservatives were more supportive of francophone education rights than the Liberals, and received support from this community ; four of the party's five legislators were francophone.

The Liberals won a majority in the Ontario provincial election of 2003, and Kennedy was re-elected in Parkdale-High Park with about 58 percent of the vote ( his nearest opponent received 16 percent ).

He was one of four MLAs who managed to get elected in the June 9, 1953 election when the Liberals received 23 % of the vote.

Despite the boost the Liberals had received in the run-up to the 1923 general election with the reunion of the Lloyd George and Asquithian wings of the party, Guedalla was unable to gain Derbyshire North East and fell to the foot of the poll behind the Conservatives.

It was the second election in a row in which the Conservatives received a majority in the parliament despite receiving fewer votes than the Liberals.

The Conservatives were not terribly pleased with the offices they received in this new government and Tory leader Andrew Bonar Law became dissatisfied with Asquith and the Liberals ' conduct of affairs.

The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

The Liberals won a large majority in the 1880 election.

This would prove the last time the Liberals won a majority in their own right.

The Liberals now found themselves with 59 members holding the balance of power in a Parliament where Labour was the largest party but lacked an overall majority.

In the October 1974 general election the Liberals slipped back slightly and the Labour government won a wafer-thin majority.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

In the Khaki Election of 1900, nationalist concern with the Boer War meant that the Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies gained a majority of Scottish seats for the first time, although the Liberals regained their ascendancy in the next election.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

St-Laurent led the Liberals to another powerful majority in the 1953 federal election.

The Liberals won a majority in their own right in both elections — something not even Holt or Robert Menzies had been able to achieve.

In a general election fought on this issue, the Liberals were weakened but still had a comfortable majority.

The election of 1974 saw Trudeau and the Liberals re-elected with a majority government with 141 of the 264 seats.

The new party directed its preferences to the Liberals, with the Menzies government re-elected with an increased majority at the 1955 election.

King's Liberals originally had a bare majority position, however, since they had won 118 out of 235 seats, exactly the minimum for a majority.

The popular vote was very close between the two parties, with the Liberals actually earning more votes, but the Conservatives had a geographical advantage that turned into enough seats to give a majority.

On that occasion the party won 48. 5 % of the vote, but, despite its absolute majority in the Italian Parliament, De Gasperi continued to govern at the head of a centrist coalition that included the Italian Workers ' Socialist Party ( PSLI-a 1947 break-away from the PSI ), the Liberals and the Republicans.

The Liberal Party, based on the middle class, in 1907 put forth a program for local voting rights later accepted in the Riksdag ; the majority of Liberals wanted to require some property ownership before a man could vote.

During the election campaign Lloyd George talked of " guarantees " and Asquith of " safeguards " that would be necessary before forming another Liberal government, but the King informed Asquith that he would not be willing to contemplate creating peers ( to give the Liberals a majority in the Lords ) until after a second general election.

The election resulted firstly in a stalemate, neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives having a majority, the balance of power being held by the Irish Parliamentary Party.

The Liberals increased their large majority mostly at the expense of the NDP, and the Tories under Joe Clark lost many seats and remained in fifth place, but Clark was elected in Calgary Centre in the middle of Alliance country, so the overall political landscape was not significantly changed.

Following a failed attempt to establish a coalition with the Liberals, Heath conceded power to a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson, which won a small majority in a second election in October that year.